2024 Northern California Westsail Rendezvous

2024 NorCal Westsail Rendezvous

The 2024 NorCal Westsail Rendezvous will be held Sept. 20th - Sept. 22, 2024 at Ballena Bay Yacht Club, hosted by Stu and Lauren Bennett aboard W32 WorldWind, along with Randy Leasure aboard W32 Tortuga and Jay Bietz aboard W32 Pygmalion.

All Westsails and Westsailors past, present and future: Bring your boat, crew, or just yourself. We will have dock space for all boats.  

Please register in advance on the WOA web site and contact Stu and Lauren at StuBennett3293@gmail.com if you have questions.

You will need to reserve a slip at the Ballena Isle Marina which uses the "free to use" website Dockspot.com to manage marina reservations. Be sure to use the phrase "BBYC Westsail sail in" in the Special Request box as they will try to group us together. (See below for screen shots.) See the marina cancellation policy. Upon checkout from the marina, the slip fees will be credited to your credit card. 

We will be guests of BBYC so there will be other members at the club as well during the weekend with some other activities happening. Please be respectful and responsible as we are guests of the host and club. 

·  Friday- Boats arrive. The Friday night potluck will be in the BBYC's Clubhouse. Bring your favorite foods to share. The BBYC bar will be open for our enjoyment.

• Locals advise to stay to the right center in the harbor channel and avoid a low tide entry/exit. The channel becomes shallow very quickly on each side of the channel. See local tide tables below.
  
  
• Important: Be sure you have copies of vessel documentation and evidence of insurance to supply to the marina, if you're arriving by boat. Electronic versions / photos are acceptable.
  

·  Saturday, boat tours and visitation etc. 

·  Saturday dinner - We are arranging a dinner that will be held inside Ballena Bay Yacht Club, with some volunteer Club members preparing the dinner and possibly joining us.  Details and cost will be announced soon.

• Dinner planned is grilled salmon, rice, spinach salad, and dessert. Cost is $30 per person. The final head count for the dinner will be taken on Wednesday evening, 9/18/24. If you haven't yet registered for the Rondy, now's the time to register! Please note that there isn't a vegetarian main dish. 
  
  
• Our after dinner speaker is Stan Sutton  who circumnavigated on W43 Marinka, from 1981-1989, and is a member of BBYC and the WOA.  Apparently he's presented to the YC, and his talk is a two part series.  He's presented the 1st half of the series to the YC, and will be presenting the 2nd half to WOA at our Rendezvous.
  
  

• Schedule
  6:00 serve dinner
  6:30 or 6:45 Introduce speaker
  6:45 to 8:30 speaker Stan and Caren Sutton
  8:45 questions and closing remarks

The WOA store will be open Saturday afternoon and evening. I am looking for someone to organize the store and handle the sales. 

Cash payments for the weekend activities are preferred. The Club can accommodate plastic payment at the bar, but cash will speed things up.

Please watch these pages for updates as they occur.  Details will follow for parking instructions as well as guest berth locations.

Best regards,

Westsail Owners Association - 2024 Northern California Westsail Rendezvous

Ballena Bay Yacht Club - Home

Dockspot.com - here are screen shots of the reservations.